About Me

Kim Carlton

My name is Kim Carlton. I am a Christian and a wife and a mother. I am a writer and a painter.
My blog is dedicated to sharing the paintings and writings about art that spring forth from a life dedicated to God, that is, my life.
Isaiah 60:1 Arise! Shine! For your light arrives! The splendor of the LORD shines on you!
Ephesians 5:14 For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Psalm 97:11 LIGHT is sown for the righteous, and JOY for the upright in heart.
John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.~~~~~~ Paint the Light; PAINT YOUR JOY.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Oil Painting 101, The Foundations has just begun. This
class will cover materials and procedures, drawing and design, the practice and
philosophy of oil painting. During the class, there will be presentations and
demonstrations, actual painting time with personal instruction and critique,
designed to bring the student from their present level to the next level.In short, it’s the class that I tried to find
when I was starting out in oils but could not find. We have a great group again
this time and I am really looking forward to the fall semester.

For our first day, I brought all the supplies that
members will need to paint with oils, plus lots and lots of optional things (canvas choices, many palettes, every kind of brush, even easels!) that they might want, to make their life easier as they paint in and out of the
studio.Here they are, all packed into
10 easy-to-fit-into-the-Mini Cooper pieces!

I like this show-and-tell day because it allows everyone
to see and touch and ask about things that they may have only heard about or seen
in pictures. There aren’t many artists who don’t have a collection of things
they thought they needed but didn’t. How much better to use someone else’s
experience and save some time and money!

So, as we begin, our palette will be the most limited in
history: one color + white. Starting like this will allow us to understand
value as the most important foundational element in painting. Do you know that
the human eye has 120 million rods, which interpret value, and only 6 million
cones, which interpret color? Well it’s true and that is one of the reasons
that it’s critical to be able to express a visual idea with value.

Our color is Transparent Oxide Brown, which is a very
deep transparent partner for the opaque white. We will study why these
characteristics are even important. In addition to value and temperature, we will
explore line and edges using this pair and, when the time is right, we’ll add
the three primaries: red, yellow and blue. By the end of the semester, we will
have at least an understanding of the infinite capabilities of these few colors. Each
class could easily be expanded into years of training, as it has been in the
ateliers throughout art history. But we only have 4 months so I promise: we
will only just scratch the surface!